Section 935 Emigration to the West (2)
Xinjiang, Central Asia, and West Asia are suitable for planting cotton.
Due to the strong sunlight, the yield of cotton is the first outside the border!
In this way, people have cotton clothes to wear and cotton quilts to cover, and they have completely left the cold!
And then to the cultivation of medicinal materials, due to the large area of the medicinal field, there are many medicinal materials produced, which are used for medicine and cooking, and the Tang people use a large number of medicinal materials.
Those military medicinal materials can also be found outside the customs to be supplied ninety out of nine, and they will not be choked by the customs inside.
The Tang people's hospitals were built along with the settlements, and the amount of medicinal herbs needed was large, and the Taiping princess shogunate consciously cultivated them
There is grain to eat, meat, eggs and milk to ensure the supply, because of the water, breeding horses, cattle, goats, donkeys, camels, mules, pigs, deer, sheep, etc., its horses and livestock are mountainous, cattle and sheep are everywhere, modern pig farms and chicken farms prevail.
Due to the technical clearance, the plague was controlled... This is the number one killer of the aquaculture industry.
There are many eggs produced, so the sales of egg noodles and omelets are very large... They are portable.
The Tang people eat a lot of meat and drink milk, so the race is generally tall, and compared with the Japanese people in Dongying, they are two heads taller!
The Japanese have to look up to the Tang people, a strong Tang army wielding a war knife can beat a hundred Japanese people away!
With a population of 1.5 million horses, it is the largest number of horse-producing organizations in the world.
In addition, there are a large number of dried fish, such as sturgeon locusts, salmon, red perch, silver carp, lake carp, zander perch, golden carp, high-bodied yarrow, burbot, oriental bream, etc. from the Brento Sea and the Irtysh. The five black and small white striped fish from the Brento Sea and the Irtysh River, the sharpfish and bighead fish from the Bosten Lake, the carp and sea bass from the Ili River are very popular, and the annual catch is very large
The dried fish has a strong flavor and is very popular among the Tang people.
Due to the vast area and the large number of wild animals, but they are protected, the government issued an order saying that the land in this world belongs to Wei Xi and Princess Taiping, and they are not allowed to be hunted casually.
Wei Xi knows too well that the Tang people's mouths are powerful, and the only people they can eat the world until they gasp are human beings!
If you want to hunt, you must have a hunting license issued by the government, and you must catch hunting without a license, so as to protect the environment.
But the people are not afraid that they will not be able to eat all the meat they have to eat.
Speaking of an important item: tea!
I eat a lot of meat, although I eat a lot of fruits, but the western region is large, and it is not easy to have a low supply of vegetables, so it is easy to poop and not come out.
Must drink tea!
The hometown of tea is the East, and the East produces good tea.
Outside the Guan, the general geography is not suitable for growing tea.
In this way, it seems that Kannai can use tea to concoct Kanwai.
Disobedient, cut off the supply of tea, so that you can't pull out.
Scared, scared!
When the Western Army obtained the Persian Plateau, the plateau and the mountains were interspersed, and further down were the hills, so there was a place to grow tea!
Tea production is an important job, and the Tang people traveled all over the plateau to find the most suitable place for tea production and plant tea trees.
Tea trees can be picked in three to four years, and there is currently a gap of one to two years, but the tea stocks of the Western Army are very large, and when the stocks are exhausted, the tea on the Persian plateau will be ripe for harvest!
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Coal and iron, the most important strategic material.
Coal can be used in smelting, providing fuel for human heating and power for trains.
The role of steel does not need to be mentioned at all.
Xinjiang has coal, a lot of coal, and then Persia also has coal, and the important thing is that Persia has iron! That's not a small amount! (It is normal that there is a lot of coal and iron in mountainous places, and in 2015, it became the fourth largest source of iron ore imports in the Celestial Empire after Australia, Brazil, and South Africa)
Then there is Persia with copper, and the reserves are very large.
It's so wonderful!
The Tang people began to go crazy with development, and soon, mines were built, smelters were built, railways were built for transportation, and then steel plates were produced, and copper ingots were stacked.
Make munitions and mint coins yourself.
The copper coin minted in Xifu is called "Tang Zhou Tongbao", which is very popular because of its exquisite shape and high copper content.
So far, the economic elements of Xifu are complete, self-contained, and they are not afraid of the blockade of the Guannai!
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Road construction has never stopped for a moment, and the army has engineering troops and railway soldiers, and the railway soldiers specialize in road construction, and when the engineering troops are not fighting, in addition to drills, they also participate in road construction.
Then there were Tang laborers who were hired, the natives were requisitioned, and railways and roads were built.
The Chinese are grain maniacs and road builders!
The main artery line of the railway has been repaired to Damascus and Lebanon!
People can take a train from the East China Sea in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west!
People everywhere also actively participate in road construction in their leisure time, and the idea of "building roads first if you want to get rich" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
With the roads repaired and the supplies unblocked, the Don army can be quickly dispatched and is not afraid of rebellion.
It can be said that there is no Wei Xi's empire without roads!
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As if by magic, at least 300,000 Tang people immigrated to the Two Rivers Valley and Syria in one year, and then within a year, together with the garrison, about 300,000 Tang babies landed in the new area!
Population policy is a national policy!
The more children you have, the more glorious you are!
If there are more students, civil servants will be rewarded, which is an important parameter indicator for promotion!
And the people have more children, and the government has a lot of subsidies, which is equivalent to the government paying for the people to raise children!
Copper coins, clothing, meat, eggs, milk, grain, cooking oil, salt, etc., are not ambiguous!
Nursery schools and maternity and infant health hospitals are an important part of the Tang Dynasty, and they are the key aspects of local officials, and the birth rate is the focus of their promotion assessment!
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In this way, industrial adjustment, population migration, people desperately produce, the army was stationed in reclamation, grazing and road construction, and finally the shipping route of Europa was opened, Wei Xi and Princess Taiping defeated the economic blockade of the two little brothers!
They thought that they could control the Western Army by economic means, but soon they were dumbfounded!
After a three-month peak, the tax collected in the West has been declining and decreasing, and finally it is only one-tenth of what it was before the tax was raised!
Moreover, due to the lack of positive factors for the expansion of the Western Army, the people in the Kannai region experienced a recession in business, a decrease in income, an economic contraction, and a sharp drop in the economic growth rate!
For example, Wu Sansi, who sold high-quality coal and grain to Wei Xi in the past, now has no harvest and does not have a copper plate.
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"Guolao, the domestic economy (this word has spread) has been worrying recently!" Wu Zetian couldn't sit still, and asked Di Renjie.
Di Renjie smiled bitterly: "The minister is wrong! ”
"Wrong?!" Wu Zetian asked in surprise.
"Yes, when the two Marquis Zhang (Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong) made a move, the minister also voted in favor!" Di Renjie smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect Wei Xi to fight the economy as a war, and the minister sent his attaché Yuan Fang to Xifu, and found that they had completed the industrial adjustment and were self-sufficient, and at the same time traded with Europa, no trade with the Guannai, at most they made a little less, but the Guannai could not affect their economy."
"What's even more worrying, Xifu has no constraints, doesn't that force them to go down the road of rebellion in the future?" Di Renjie felt panicked!
Thinking of Wu Zetian's great trip in the future, will his master Li Dan still be able to defeat Princess Taiping?